Category: MicroFocus/NetIQ
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Managing Active Directory with the NetIQ Directory & Resource Administrator First let us review some of the challenges in administrating AD and LDAP in general: Directory structures are inflexible Changing AD once it is implemented to meet changing administrative or organizational needs are difficult. Delegating and “un-delegating” access is a royal pain Delegating account administration … Continue reading Managing Active Directory with the NetIQ Directory & Resource Administrator
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Integrating NetIQ (Novell) Identity Manager (IDM) with Aveksa Compliance Manager (ACM) Steps to Entitlement Provisioning: Install the “Role Based Provisioning Module” which installs the Webservice to connect IDM and ACM Create the “User application” and “Role and Provisioning” drivers (these drivers can be configured to hold the entitlements and role information) Enable the Novell Plugin … Continue reading Integrating NetIQ (Novell) Identity Manager (IDM) with Aveksa Compliance Manager (ACM)
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Last November we published a blog entry, Novell Role-Based Provisioning Module Install – Tips, Tricks and Gotchas. In the entry we described a few key points surrounding Novell’s (NetIQ’s) RBPM product , most specifically with regards to using WebSphere for web services. So now we have a part II, if you will, additional steps to … Continue reading NetIQ Role-Based Provisioning Module Install – Tips, Tricks & Gotchas: Part Deux
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Adding Custom Images in the NetIQ Access Governance Suite (AGS) Email Template (SailPoint too) Many of our customers are keen to add the company logo in the standard email template in NetIQ Access Governance Suite – AGS (this applies to SailPoint IIQ as well). There are a few ways to add the images in NetIQ … Continue reading Adding Custom Images in the NetIQ Access Governance Suite (AGS) Email Template (SailPoint too)
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Mixed Environment Novell/Net IQ IDM 4 Upgrades Over the course of time software requires an upgrade. Whether the upgrade is due to a need for new functionality, support requirements, or just simply a business desire to stay current the need to perform upgrades is unavoidable. Novell has introduced a very, very simple method of installing … Continue reading Mixed Environment Novell/Net IQ IDM 4 Upgrades
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Novell IDM Best Practices: Don’t Forget the Small Stuff When developing a Novell IDM driver its easy to get focused on requirements and lose track of the little things that can come back to bite you later on. The perfect example of this is the DirXML-Associations attribute. This handy little attribute is typically automatically set … Continue reading Novell IDM Best Practices: Don’t Forget the Small Stuff
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Where Novell/Net IQ fit in the Standards Based IDM Market IDMWORKS is a vendor neutral Identity & Access Management Service provider. On our blog we highlight individual companies and products quite often. Today we will be highlighting the Novell/Net IQ IAM stack. When implementing an identity management solution it is typically in the best interest … Continue reading Where Novell/Net IQ fit in the Standards Based IDM Market
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When implementing Novell’s (or NETIQs) Identity Manager product there are times when a certain connector(s) must be run on the MS Windows platform. If Meta-Directory Engine is running on a Linux (or other non-Windows) platform the requirement is the use of the Remote Loader. When asked if it is better to run the Remote Loader … Continue reading Novell IdM – Implementing Remote Loader on Microsoft Windows
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about Novell and the possibility of an acquisition, well today that “theory” has been validated. On 11/22/2010 Attachmate announced that they had come to a definitive agreement with Novell’s board and shareholder for the purchase of the company. Attachmate, not having the same footprint in the IAM space as Novell, … Continue reading Novell’s future, (not as) confusing at best… rewind